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Language for Interacting With Others

Understand that Standard Australian English is one of many social dialects used in Australia, and that while it originated in England it has been influenced by many other languages ACELA1487 Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others for example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others, summarising their own views and reporting them to a larger group ACELA1488 Understand differences between the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting or recording ACELA1489

Text Structure & Organisation

Understand how texts vary in complexity and technicality depending on the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience ACELA1490 Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives ACELA1491 Recognise how quotation marks are used in texts to signal dialogue, titles and quoted (direct) speech ACELA1492 Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout ACELA1793

Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases ACELA1493 Investigate how quoted (direct) and reported (indirect) speech work in different types of text ACELA1494 Understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity ACELA1495 Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts ACELA1496 Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research ACELA1498

Phonic & Word Knowledge

Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex words ACELA1779 Read and write a large core of high frequency words including homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling ACELA1780 Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter combinations, including a variety of vowel sounds and known prefixes and suffixes ACELA1828

Literature & Contexts

Make connections between the ways different authors may represent similar storylines, ideas and relationships ACELT1602

Engaging With & Responding to Literature

Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view ACELT1603 Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features of literary texts ACELT1604

Examining Literature

Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension ACELT1605 Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns ACELT1606

Creating Literature

Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining ACELT1607 Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings ACELT1794

Texts in Context

Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary texts ACELY1686

Interacting with Others

Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information ACELY1687 Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently ACELY1688 Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences ACELY1689

Analysing, Interpreting & Evaluating

Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text ACELY1690 Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing ACELY1691 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts ACELY1692

Creating Texts

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features ACELY1694 Re-read and edit for meaning by adding, deleting or moving words or word groups to improve content and structure ACELY1695 Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity ACELY1696 Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements ACELY1697